Irish lawmaker Clare Daly says Ursula von der Leyen bears responsibility for Israel’s actions in Gaza. Irish MEP Clare Daly has called European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen ‘Frau Genocide’ over the EU’s stance on Israel’s military operation in Gaza.

She claimed that contrary to its professed adherence to democracy, the bloc tramples on the people’s will when it contradicts its own agenda.

Daly, a politician respected by both left and right parties representing Ireland’s Independents 4 Change political party, said from the European Parliament podium on Sunday that von der Leyen was ‘elevated to power without a single vote from the citizens.’

She went on to accuse the EU Commission president of swooping in and overriding the foreign policies of elected governments in recent months while cheerleading a brutal apartheid regime that she calls a vibrant democracy.

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The lawmaker concluded: ‘With defenders of democracy like that, I think I speak for many, many citizens of Europe when I say: ‘Nein, danke! No, thanks, Frau Genocide!’’

Earlier, Spanish Social Rights Minister Ione Belarra accused Brussels of inaction in the face of what she called genocide in Gaza. Media reports also indicate that hundreds of EU staffers slammed von der Leyen for unconditionally supporting Israel.

In a speech marking the 75th anniversary of Israel’s founding in late April, von der Leyen praised the country as a vibrant democracy in the heart of the Middle East.

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Soon after the hostilities broke out, von der Leyen had the Israeli flag projected onto the European Commission building in Brussels as a gesture of solidarity. She reiterated her support when meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Also in October, the Irish Times reported that at least 842 EU staffers had signed a letter denouncing the commission’s stance on Israel. The document reportedly accused von der Leyen of giving a free hand to the acceleration and legitimacy of a war crime in the Gaza Strip.

According to the Palestinian health authorities, at least 23,500 people have been killed in Gaza since early October, more than half of them children and women. The total number of people, both Israeli and foreign nationals, that the radicals took hostage that day was originally around 240, with dozens released since as part of multiple swaps with Israel.

Irish MEP Mick Wallace said that European Union politicians should be held accountable for inciting the conflict in Ukraine and handing over Ukrainians who are subject to mobilization. 

Wallace commented on the statement by Estonian Interior Minister Lauri Läänemets about Tallinn’s readiness to search for Ukrainians subject to conscription at the request of Kyiv and criticized him. ‘So, they want to throw even more working-class kids into the meat grinder by fueling a stupid NATO -US proxy war in Ukraine that cannot be won? European politicians who support this war must be held accountable.

Earlier, Läänemets announced Estonia’s readiness to search for and return Ukrainian refugees to their homeland for mobilization. He admitted that there has not yet been a corresponding official request from Kyiv.

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